Editing Glarus Alps (section)

==Geography==
[[File:Bifertenstock2.jpg|thumb|left|The [[Bifertenstock]] above Lake [[Limmernsee]]]]
[[File:Calfeisen.jpg|thumb|left|Calfeisen valley]]
The main chain of the Glarus Alps can be divided into six minor groups, separated from each other by passes, the lowest of which exceeds 7,500&nbsp;ft. The westernmost of these is the Crispalt, a rugged range including many peaks of nearly equal height. The highest of these are the [[Piz Giuv]] (3,096 m) and [[Piz Nair (Glarus Alps)|Piz Nair]]. The name ''Crispalt'' is given to a southern, but secondary, peak of Piz Giuv, measuring 3,070 m. West of the main group is the Rienzenstock, while a northern outlier culminates in the [[Bristen]]. East of the Crispalt, the [[Chrüzli Pass]] separates this from the rather higher mass of the [[Oberalpstock]] (3,328 m).<ref name = Ball>[[John Ball (naturalist)|John Ball]], ''The Alpine Guide, Central Alps'', 1866, London</ref>

Here occurs a partial break in the continuity of the chain. The crest of the snowy range connecting the Oberalpstock with the [[Tödi]] nowhere sinks to 9,000 feet, but makes a sweep convex to the north, forming a semicircular recess, whose numerous torrents are all poured into the [[Rhine]] through the [[Val Russein]] below [[Disentis]]. Two glacier passes lead over this part of the chain — one to west, over the Brunnigletscher to the [[Maderanertal]]; the other to the north-east, over the Sand Glacier, to the [[Linthal, Glarus|Linthal]].<ref name = Ball/>

[[File:Hausstock und Ruchi.jpg|thumb|The massif of the [[Hausstock]]]]
The [[Tödi]], the highest of the range and of north-eastern Switzerland (3,614 m), is attended by numerous secondary peaks that arise from the extensive snow-fields surrounding the central mountain. A very considerable outlyer, whose chief summits are the [[Schärhorn]] and the [[Gross Windgällen]], belonging to the canton of Uri, is connected with the Tödi by the range of the [[Clariden]] {{Not a typo|Grat}}, north to the [[Hüfi Glacier]]. A less important branch encloses the [[Biferten Glacier]], and terminates in the [[Selbsanft]], south of Tierfehd. Towards the valley of the Vorderrhein a high promontory stretches nearly due south from the central peaks of the Tödi, and is crowned by the summit of the Piz Posta Biala. Another considerable ramification of the same mass terminates farther to the east in the peak of the [[Cavistrau]].<ref name = Ball/>

The [[Kisten Pass]] separates the Tödi group from the [[Hausstock]], whose summit attains 3,158 m; a branch of this latter group forms the range of the [[Kärpf]] in the canton of Glarus. The Hausstock is cut off from the rather lower but more extended mass of the [[Vorab]] by the [[Panixer Pass]] (7,907&nbsp;ft). Numerous summits, of which the Vorab proper and [[Piz Grisch]] are the most important, approach very near, but do not quite attain to 10,000 feet.<ref name = Ball/>

The eastern limit of the latter group is marked by the {{ill|Segnas Pass|de|Segnaspass}} — the most frequented of those connecting the Canton Glarus with the Vorderrhein — beyond which arises a wide-stretching mass of rock and glacier, which is part of the [[Glarus thrust]] and culminates at [[Piz Sardona]]. This mass is cleft by a deep valley — the Calfeisental: one branch, culminating in the [[Pizol]] (2,844 m), extends east over [[Pfäfers]], while another, including the highest peak of the [[canton of St. Gallen]], the [[Ringelspitz]] (3,247 m), runs due east to the low Kunkels Pass (1,357 m), separating this range from the [[Calanda (mountain)|Calanda]].<ref name = Ball/>
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